Social entrepreneurship. A term which sounds quite modern, innovative, cool. But what exactly does it mean? What is social entrepreneurship about? We all have an idea of the term „entrepreneurship“. And I am sure that it would be easy for us to right away come up with words which describe the meaning of the term „social“ to us.

However, when I sat down and tried to think of a definition for the whole term, I realized that it would be more easy for me to spontaneously outline the differences and contrasts between the two topics rather than to come up with a clear description of what a „social entrepreneur“ is. Nevertheless, after starting to occupy myself with this topics, I got a rough idea of the meaning. Of course I can think of a few examples for this kind of entrepreneurship: The first thing which came to my mind were non-profit associations and government organizations. (mehr …)